GPS Tutorial

Could someone create or point me to a nice tutorial on how to get started with the GPS API? How to set everything up and a simple usage example. Would be nice if this was added to the wiki as well :)/>/>

The GPS API is pretty small. It is on the wiki located in the API's section with the rest of the API's. http://computercraft...e=Gps_%28API%29

You will want a line in your code to get the coordinates. It should look something like

local x, y, z = gps.locate()

Make sure you have 4 host setup within range of the turtle you're trying to use GPS with.

You will want to run the GPS program on them. Type "help gps" from a terminal for information on launching your host.

More info on the wiki here… http://computercraft.info/wiki/index.php?title=Gps_%28program%29

Sort of Meta note: the forum search doesn't help this issue. "GPS" is too short a string to search on.

Indeed. The forum should allow the search of certain acronyms, since they are wideley used. Perhaps a suggestion to the Moderators to fix this?

"GPS " usually works fairly well. Try using that string.

You mean adding a space after GPS?

Yeah, that was the suggestion given by Cloudy a while ago. It seems to not work, though.